Former Oostburg treasurer court date postponed

12:24 PM,
Jun. 21, 2013

Former Oostburg village treasurer Kim Simmelink, walks past village clerk/treasurer Jill Ludens as he appears for his preliminary hearing Thursday May 3, 2012, in Sheboygan County Circuit Court Branch 2. He is accused of embezzling village funds. Photo by Bruce Halmo/The Sheboygan Press

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A former Oostburg clerk-treasurer accused of embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from village coffers has had his trial reset to July.

Kim Simmelink, 56, of Sheboygan Falls, was supposed to appear in court Wednesday, but will now appear in Sheboygan County Circuit Court at 10 a.m. on July 2.

Simmelink is facing 26 counts of theft in a business setting, which combined carry a maximum sentence of 550 years in prison, for allegedly paying himself nearly $600,000 from village funds using forged checks and phony invoices from a fictitious business, called Micro Cad, that he ...